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With Truss/Kwarteng having exposed the fantasist policies of the Tufton Street mafia to the harsh realities of 'the markets', Sunak/Hunt can attempt to bring some adult thinking to the Cabinet.
All the ERG-supported nutters are purposefully, far from the Treasury or the Department of Business, Energy & Innovation.
With the concept of UKCA kicked down the road for 2 years by Shapps, why not have some shadow standards alignment and aim for frictionless trade with a market of 500 million consumers on our doorstep?Imagine the average inhabitant of the UK being as rich as the average Swiss!
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frictionless trade with a market of 500 million consumers on our doorstep
We used to pay billions for this though. Whatever deal can be struck will be hard to sell to the population and will increase anti EU sentiment again. Especially if it includes freedom of movement which the EU has insisted is a tenet of frictionless trade.
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Imagine the average inhabitant of the UK being as rich as the average Swiss!
Didn’t this kind of rhetoric get us where we are today in the first place?
Airhead
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So it begins
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/britain-mulls-swiss-style-ties-with-brussels-nr0f7fw2k